Making kdelibs depend on Boost, Was: Re: FindKdepimLibs.cmake

[Leo Savernik]

Am Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> > > Syndication was made optional because I wanted to build kdepimlibs
> > > without boost on win32 at this time. We needed some time to get some
> > > (working) boost headers. As we now have them, it can get a hard
> > > dependency.
> >
> > Ok, thanks Christian.
> >
> > I will make boost a hard dependency.
>
> When ?
> The last time somebody suggested to make boost a hard dependency it was
> rejected. So this should be at least discussed on this list.

Indeed. Given that boost itself makes no provisions that "libraries actually 
work as claimed" or that "backward compatibility with prior version isn't 
always possible" [1] I wonder how a hard dependency can meet the high 
standards we have set for KDE 4.

Anybody still remembers OpenSSL?

mfg
	Leo

[1] http://www.boost.org/more/faq.htm